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This year I've decided to not include titles that were introduced in 2009 and are having their theatrical release this year: they include top of the list we find A Prophet and Fish Tank, a pair of cream of the crop titles showcased in Cannes, and films such as Dogtooth, Hadewijch, Tales From the Golden Age, Father of My Children, City of Life and Death, I Killed My Mother (J'ai tue ma mere), Mother, Mother and Child, Lebanon, Micmacs à tire-larigot are all worthy titles to look out for.

The combo of Depp, the novel on which this film is based on, and the guy who made cult film Withnail & I is enough for me to be psyched for Robinson's long gestating project (Depps was throwing hints at us way back when he was filming 2003's Secret Window).

Joffe has proven himself as a strong voice: he began his career as a scribe for Pawel Pawlikowski's Last Resort, expanded a franchise with 28 Weeks Later and helped adapt The American for Anton Corbijn (also coming out this year and on this list). If core of the featured relationship between a thug and waitress comes across unscathed, then we'll be talking about Carey Mulligan for a good portion of 2010.

Two eagerly awaited films will appear at Christmas and year's end; Ragnar Bragason's Mr. Bjarnfredarson and Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's Mamma Gogo. The former, a culmination of Iceland's most popular TV series ever, The Night Shift, The Day Shift and The Prison Shift, stars Jon Gnarr, Petur Jóhann Sigfusson and Jorundur Ragnarsson. Mr. Bjarnfredarson is a darkly comic redemption story spanning almost fifty years, with emphasis on Georg (Gnarr), an over educated know-it-all, that has just been released from jail, but is still a prisoner of his own past.

When I predicted that Steven Soderbergh would come to Park City with his Spaulding Gray documentary, I was pegging it as a Sundance premiere, when in fact, the filmmaker who presented The Girlfriend Experience as a surprise screening last year, is renewing his rapport with the festival just down the street -- he once showed Schizopolis there.